The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-30
Farn Notes.

When contagious disease breaks out in
hocl. OF fowls it is better 10 destroy them
all rather than have the disease get "root-
Ell" on the farm, as the germs mGy remain
for years.
IN answer tc the question: 'Why docs
churning make butterin tho Scientific
american says: Agitating the milk causes
the rupture OF the coating of the butter
globules contained in the milk, and their
fatty contents then collect together.
The pure Dalmatian insect powder is
claimed to be superior to tho buhach of
California, but the only difference is that
they are grown in separate sections, and
so far as their value as insecticides is con-
cerned either may by used in place of the
other.
The hot-bed plants should DO carefully
watched, and if they begin to run up long
and slender you may know that they are
either too warm or too much crowded in the
bed, or it may be that both these conditions
tend to mako them assume this very undesir-
able form.
While we arc disputing in this country as
to the relative merits of cotton-seed and
linseed meal the English farmers ares ending
here for all the cotton-seed meal they can
get, and are willing TO pay good prices for
it, Our farmers should take the hint and
use more of both articles.
An acre of carrots can be made to yield
over 800 bushels, though the labor would be
quite an item in the beginning Turnips are
grown in preference to carrots because they
terminate from the seed sooner and are not
so easily overlun with grass and weeds, but
the carrots are far more valuable as food for
all classes of stock.
Will it pay to grow black walnuts and
then waltz A black walnut tree in Michi-
gan lately sold for $215. No doubt if the
young trees were planted in rows forty feet
apart each way and cultivated they would
be valuable as a special crop, as twenty-five
trees could thus be grown on one acre.
Though late, the returns would be sure and
unused land could be proftably devoted to
them.
Dairy butter will always sell higher than
that made at the creameries, provided it be
of first quality. Creamery butter is usually
more uniform, but as dairy butter is made
by thousands of different persons it is not
easy to secure large quantities of the same
grade. There are a few diaries which sell
butter at 81 per pound, even when prices are
low; but such butter is made under the most
favorable conditions only.
The Pittsburg StocLmdn calls attention to
churning by stating that if the cream be
made too warm the globules will burst and
the OIL mingle with the water in the cream
and rise to the top. Such cream will come
to butter very slowly, if it come at all
Boiling water is too hot to use in the cream
66' is as warm as the cream should be made,
as the butter will be white and soft. Keep
the cream as near CO. as possible while wait
ing for the churn.
The Lire Stock Journal says that it would
be as reasonable to expect good bread from
-four made of damaged grain as pure milk
from cows with rations of food tainted by
age or soured through exposure to heat and
moisture. The putridity contained in de-
caying food enters and poisons the blood,
and it is from the blood that the milk is ex-
tTacted in the udder. Let no man fiatter
himself that the digestive organs con separ-
ate the putridity, casting it aside; ON the
other hand, the damaged material goes wher-
ever the blood goes-to the lungs, liver, kid
neys and udder, and in the latter enters the
milk.
Locust, white or yellow, should be soaked
in warm water at the time for complaint
ing for twelve hours, and the seed then
placed between folds of damp cloths kept
warm until the first signs of termination be
discovered, and then SOW in sows rather
| Uhickly, the rows three feet apart for ease
in cultivation. Keep clean, and the seed
Iings may be planted next year where they
are TO stand Catalpa seed may be sown
rather more thinly, but need not be
soaked. They may be transplanted as
directed for locust, if for O grove AKA feet
apart, thinning alternate rows and after
ward alternate trees in the row, as necessity
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